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Join Multimodal Learning for Faculty Development Day 9/17!

10:00am-10:30am Meet at Samuelson Service DeskTour New Multimodal Learning Spaces in SamuelsonCome tour the new home for Multimodal Learning in the Samuelson STEM building. This central hub for faculty, students, and staff using instructional technologies for teaching and learning includes tech-flex active-learning classrooms, multimedia production lab, recording studios, distance education teaching studios, instructional training lab, and the Multimodal Education Center create lab with 3D printing/scanning, laser-cutting, and virtual/augmented reality technologies.

10:30am-11:00am Samuelson 124Top Hat Student Engagement AppCome learn about Top Hat, CWU’s free student engagement app. Top Hat encourages student engagement by utilizing a student’s own mobile device and a free Top Hat Lecture App (with no extra clicker device for students to purchase and carry around). Top Hat allows you to automate attendance-taking and in-class polling, spark conversations, and get real-time feedback from students as they participate in-class on their mobile devices. The CWU Student Tech Fee Committee approved funding for a tiered-license of Top Hat with 2500 student licenses for 2018-19, so the tool is available to students at no cost!

1:00pm-1:30pm Meet at Samuelson Service DeskTour New Multimodal Learning Spaces in SamuelsonCome tour the new home for Multimodal Learning in the Samuelson STEM building. This central hub for faculty, students, and staff using instructional technologies for teaching and learning includes tech-flex active-learning classrooms, multimedia production lab, recording studios, distance education teaching studios, instructional training lab, and the Multimodal Education Center create lab with 3D printing/scanning, laser-cutting, and virtual/augmented reality technologies.

1:30pm-2:00pm Samuelson 124Ally Accessibility ToolPreview the new Ally accessibility tool that automatically generates alternate accessible formats for course documents uploaded into Canvas. Ally scans your course documents (Word, PPT, PDF, images) and creates accessible versions in alternate formats (eBraille, ePub, tagged PDF, HTML, audio recording, and screen-reader accessible files) to serve students with different learning needs. Ally also provides step-by-step guides to help instructors make their original course documents more accessible. Ally will be piloted this Fall with a scaled roll-out planned throughout the academic year.